Multan
 

vendor of lace and other trimmings
In oriental countries, if you need new clothes, you buy some cloth and take it to the taylor. But it's not always as simple as that. When I wanted a Shalwaar Kameez suit in read silk, I couldn't find red silk, or blue or green or yellow silk for that matter, in any shop I searched for. There was an abundance of synthetic materials in every colour of the rainbow, but pure silk was only availible, if at all, in white. Finally I came to a shop where the owner spoke English. "But you only have to choose the colour you'd like", he exclaimed. So I bought his white silk, chose the right shade of dark red, and he immediatly sent somebody to a conveniently located dyer's shop in near by in a back alley. There, lengths of cloth are dyed by hand, hung to dry in the street and than either returned to their owners or sent directly to the taylors.